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This study investigates the long-term effects of peace-time military conscription on educational attainment and earnings by exploiting a policy change that exempted a complete birth cohort from military service. We find that compulsory military service decreases the proportion of Dutch...
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make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
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We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital...
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time are well in line with a process of unbundling; sorting on comparative advantage has increased and the market wages of …
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limited English proficiency (LEP) affects wages and employment opportunities for Hispanic workers in the United States. I … between LEP and education, occupation and immigration status. I show that the combination of two weak but credible assumptions …
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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4 percent each. In the long run …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …
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This article documents the long-term relationship among juvenile conviction, occupation choices, employment, wages, and … accumulated occupation-specific work experience, general experience, and education are important to explain the gaps in wage and … as a human capital investment vehicle through which juvenile crimes have a long-term impact on wages and recidivism …
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We examine the changes in the rewards to cognitive and non-cognitive skill during the time period 1992-2013. Using unique administrative data for Sweden, we document a secular increase in the returns to non-cognitive skill. This increase is particularly pronounced in the private sector, at the...
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We examine the changes in the rewards to cognitive and non-cognitive skill during the time period 1992-2013. Using unique administrative data for Sweden, we document a secular increase in the returns to non-cognitive skill. This increase is particularly pronounced in the private sector, at the...
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We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer … shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker … increase of 2.1 log points. Next, we show that education grants access to better-paying firms and job titles: one fourth of the …
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